Came here to say that. Compared to making everybody richer, making one guy a billionaire is easy. It costs $1 billion. Even giving each Chinese person $1 would cost more than that.

Edit: Which is not to be all "America Yay!" and "China Boo!" like some high school rivalry. America's legendary wealth inequality objectively demonstrates that it, too, leans closer to "making one guy a billionaire" than it does to "giving everybody a dollar."

Agreed. If you're a regular reader of Bloomberg (I am myself), then you see that they almost fetishize abnormal wealth - constantly writing articles in regards to what the "elite", the "1%", the "ultra-wealthy" think/do. As someone who previously liked Bloomberg (about as much as someone can like that type of thing), the constant obsession with wealth is definitely a turn off.